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I've never seen anything quite like this absence of Xmas lighting on the downtown L.A. Office Towers. Even in the most dire of economic times (like the Iraq war; Afghanistan war; oil embargoes; energy crises; Enron electricity crisis and California electricity crisis) the Oligarch orc owners of those office towers lighted them for Xmas. During crisis times, there were shorter lighting sessions and reduced times in which the office towers were lighted -- but this year -- there has been zero Xmas lighting of those office towers. The two largest towers were always lighted -- this year none are lighted. It is beyond weird. I looked again last night and none of them were lighted. This is the first time in my memory that this has happened. In past years those high-rise towers were almost universally lighted with Christmas colors from the day after Thanksgiving to mid-January. This year -- nothing.